Deborah Jones (Positive Pathways)

The Company moto; A pathway to success...

We are a salon based within a salon. We have two beauty rooms located in Eltham, we also have a separate purpose built training school.

Our Skin Care Specialist's offer; Hollywood Waxing, Relaxing Dermalogica & Crystal Clear Facials, Fake Bake Tanning, Micro Sclerotherapy (veins on legs), Skin Tag, Thread Vein & Wart Removal

Accredited Beauty Training - One to one tution, or small groups. Learning is delievered to suit individidual learning needs.
Each course is accredited by the Guild of Beauty Therapist. The Diploma issued on completion is insurable to include public liability.

We believe its never too late to learn or develop a new skill.......

Being an under achiever at school,  leaving school with no qualifications, became a mother and wife at 19 years, divorced by the time I was 24 years. This left me a devoted single parent of two.

As a primary school student my dream was to become a beautician and a teacher. The sad thing was I believed I wasn't intellegent enough. When I became a single parent I made a decision, I would not waste time doing nothing. 

I went to college and obtained my first qualification, this made me hungry for more, the motivation it gave me was immence.  I went on to develop my skills, working part time in a beauty salon in Sydenham.  I continued to learn, I qualified as an aerobics instructor, a fitness instructor, an aqua aerobic instructor.

I wanted to train to become a beauty teacher, unfortunately my beauty  tutor told me I wasn't intelligent enough, this made me even more determine to train. The only way I could train for this, was to use the aerobics instructor qualification. I went on to qualify for a Certificate in Education at Canterbury and Christ Church.

It was a wonderful feeling the day I called my beauty tutor to let her know  I was looking for teaching hours, "sweet"

My journey has been amazing, I've taught in a number of Further Education Colleges also  worked as an aerobic & aqua aerobics instructor for Greenwich Leisure Ltd, ( I loved teaching the over 50's classes, I had such fun!).

Whilst working as a Beauty Lecturer I continued to train gaining an assessors and internal verifiers qualification.  

I absolutely  love my job, I love working with people I specialise in hair removal, this has helped to change the life's of many people. I sometimes have to pinch myself when I realise what I have achieved over the years - 19 years!

I have just opened a training centre in Eltham and aim to develop the centre to provide NVQ qualifications in Beauty Therapy, to run along side the accredited diploma's I already offer.

Excited about the future...........